TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banerjee,Abhijit V.
AU  - Duflo,Esther
TI  - Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty 
SN  - 9781586487980
U1  - 339.46091724 BAN 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Prevention
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout, the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent"--
ER  -